Staff Software Engineer

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Responsibilities

• ▹Participate in all phases of the software development life cycle: requirements gathering with product managers, technical design, estimation, sprint planning, coding, testing, deployment and on-call support.
• ▹Own, operate and maintain the team's services in a distributed production environment using agile methodologies.
• ▹Design and implement real-time services with high throughput and low-latency requirements; verify, deploy and operationalize them.
• ▹Work closely with stakeholders to understand customer needs and deliver simple, robust, scalable solutions.
• ▹Communicate thoughts and designs as detailed prose with leads, architects and cross-functional teams.
• ▹Scale a complex distributed platform with global points of presence, focusing on high availability, reliability, throughput, low latency and media fidelity.
• ▹Devise novel solutions to customer problems for the Voice channel.

Requirements

• ▹Minimum 8 years of hands-on experience in large-scale, distributed applications on JVM-based technologies.
• ▹Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related engineering field.
• ▹Strong Computer Science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, operating systems, distributed systems.
• ▹Experience building RESTful services, API design and event-driven architectures, Kafka, SQS.
• ▹Hands-on experience designing and optimizing CI/CD pipelines.
• ▹Experience with on-call rotations, incident response, monitoring and alerting tools, Prometheus, Datadog, Grafana.

Nice to have

• ▹Applicants with alternative career paths or experience in other industries are encouraged to apply, even without an exact skill match.

Soft skills

About the company

Twilio builds communications solutions used by hundreds of thousands of businesses, empowering millions of developers worldwide to craft personalized customer experiences, with a remote-first culture.